By
education and by trade, I was a drug chemist. My passion for science
motivated a successful career in drug design and synthesis – in
both academia and industry. As a scientist, I witnessed first-hand
the priorities of international pharmaceutical companies (Big Pharma),
which ranked wealth first and health a distant second.

In
the pharmaceutical industry, making money supercedes science. Science
no longer prevails in medicine. Instead, modern medicine has been
democratized. Drug approval is a simple matter of 51% telling the
other 49% that a prescription drug is safe and necessary. The outcome:
deadly drugs are approved for use among misinformed medical doctors
and patients. Herein lies a story of deceit and a chemist’s abandonment
of modern medicine.

My
suspicion of modern medicine began while I was employed by Eli Lilly
to design a new generation of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
drugs. Such drugs include tamoxifen and raloxifene. Initially, these
drugs were thought to block estrogen receptors (excess estrogen
can initiate cancer growth) and thereby halt cancer. As time progressed,
though, it was learned that they were also capable of activating
estrogen receptors. The end result was a biochemical environment
favorable to cancer growth among users. [1]The
Journal of the American Medical Association recognized this trend
and stated "our data add to the growing body of evidence that recent
long-term use of HRT is associated with an increased risk of breast
cancer and that such use may be related particularly to lobular
tumors."

The
risk of cancer associated with HRT drugs was obscured from doctors
by drug companies. This can be seen by the fact that tamoxifen is
the gold-standard used by medical doctors to fight cancer among
their patients, particularly breast cancer. This explains why medical
doctors might not notice its ability to cause cancer – the patient
already has it.

At
any rate, my task was made clear: Design HRT “knock-offs” that are
effective without causing cancer.

My
attempt to design safer alternatives was unsuccessful. And after
one year, the project was ended. However, access to HRT drugs like
tamoxifen was not. They remained on the market.

The
fuel driving the continued use of HRT drugs was disinformation via
Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) advertising. Since 1962, monitoring DTC
advertising has been the sole responsibility of the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). But in a ghastly conflict of interests, the
FDA granted the duty of DTC advertising to the pharmaceutical companies
in 1997. Officially, this was done as a means of “promoting health
awareness to ensure health and safety.” Unofficially, it was done
to sell more drugs. DTC advertising dictated that all women over
50 should use HRT to remain healthy. Women scurried to their doctors
to ask if “HRT was right for them.” My suspicion grew into conflict.

The
disinformation campaign behind HRT drugs was not an isolated case.
I learned that drug advertising and science are frequently in direct
opposition to each other. For example:

By
spreading the aforementioned health myths, DTC advertising forges
a belief among the general public which asserts that drugs – not
lifestyle habits and nutrition - confer health and longevity. And
although, in reality, medicine is only necessary for sick people
in times of emergency, DTC advertising has been wildly successful
in convincing people that being healthy requires a lifetime of prescription
drug use. While it's true that the advertising usually mentions
the potential side effects of drugs, doctors tend to discount them.
They simply regurgitate the pharmaceutical-company line that “the
benefits of a drug outweigh the risks.” Don’t believe it.

Western
Medicine’s plague of deception is deadlier than any virus, illicit
drugs, and terrorism combined. Well-documented in scientific journals
and reported by media outlets nationwide, FDA approved drugs are
killing an estimated 106,000 people every year.[2]
That equates to one individual dying every five minutes from “approved”
drugs - 300 people dying every day. Which is twice as many deaths
in a single year from "approved drugs" as the total number of U.S.
deaths from the Vietnam War.[3]
This does not count death by hospital medical error, which adds
98,000 deaths to the atrocity.[4]
If not killed, an estimated 2 million people are victims of drug-induced
illnesses.[5]
These may include drug-induced obesity, cancer, kidney disease,
autism, depression and heart failure.

Hypnotized
by DTC advertising, people are oblivious to the ill effects of prescription
drug use. This is evidenced by their willingness to swallow whatever
“the doctor ordered.” They drug their children, hop the borders
to smuggle inexpensive prescription drugs back into the U.S., beg
their congressman for discounts and pay a lifetime of insurance
fees in order to snatch up these silent killers. The avalanche of
DTC advertising has smothered common sense.

For
the general public and medical doctors to fully grasp the effect
of Modern Medicine’s Deceit, they have to judge the situation
by what a drug is actually accomplishing, rather than what the drug
company ads and pharmaceutically-compliant politicians insist. The
health benefits of prescription drugs are illusory. Step away from
the hypnotic drug ads, close the ghost-written medical journals,
discard research studies dominated by statistical contortionists
and give yourself a prescription-drug reality check: Very few prescription
drugs have any value outside of emergency medicine and those that
do can usually be replaced with safer and less expensive natural
medicine. This was a troublesome lesson for me, as an aspiring drug
chemist, to learn. Unfortunately, it was not the only one.

Humanitarianism
among Big Pharma has been abandoned. The technical skills of chemists
are not being used for humanitarian purposes. They are being used
in a deadly game of profiteering. Those at risk are not the misinformed,
high-paid medical doctors but rather their patients. Becoming aware
of this ripple effect of DTC advertising led to my abandonment of
modern medicine.

I
had to face the cold, hard facts: Western Medicine has become a
billion dollar empire not out of keen science, but rather deceit.
The end result has been one nation under drugs. This subjugation
has set a standard of health in America that, by definition, is
sick care disguised as health care.

Forward
thinking chemists recognize the deadly trend. But few have the luxury
of speaking out or resigning. The majority of chemists in the U.S.
are foreigners. Their career secures them the right to live and
work in the U.S. This demands allegiance to their employer, regardless
of the end result of their labors. Admittedly, that this is an intentional
act of Big Pharma is speculative.

Individuals
outside of the drug industry often question my conflict with Big
Pharma. How can a single person denounce a philosophy adhered to
by millions of medical doctors? That is simple: I ignore the majority
thinking that is steeped in disinformation. I stand firm in science.
Truth in science requires only one scientist to verify reproducible
results in the face of pharmaceutical tyranny.

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Science
proves that habits, not drugs, create and eradicate disease. The
current devastation of prescription drugs is a warning that healthy
lifestyle and nutrition habits must replace blind worship of prescription
drugs in the pursuit of life-extension. As people obtain better
health intelligence and heed this warning, drug use will recede.
A new model of health care based on common sense, not profiteering,
will emerge.

Shane holds a Master’s degree in organic chemistry
and has first-hand industry experience with drug research, design and
synthesis. He understands that Americans want and deserve education rather
than prescriptions. His shocking ebook surrounding cholesterol lowering
drugs can be downloaded for FREE as a pdf file at www.health-fx.net/eBook.pdf.
His book Health Myths Exposed is available at www.healthmyths.net

The
risk of cancer associated with HRT drugs was obscured from doctors by
drug companies. This can be seen by the fact that tamoxifen is the gold-standard
used by medical doctors to fight cancer among their patients, particularly
breast cancer.